Does this exist??

[Flynn]

Please don't ignore me for weeks and then come home with a bottle of wine expecting sex. A glass of Merlot is not considered foreplay!

:ra:

In all fairness my DH never does this but I know people who do and I am CRACKING UP!!!!

Could you be more UNROMANTIC!!!????

[PrincessFiona]

Wow, I thought I was the only one married to a narcissist! I laughed so hard when I read these posts! I guess misery loves company.

How about these...

Please don't treat me like a case study. When I was in the labor room having our 2nd child, my DH had all the interns gather around and listen to my pregnancy induced heart murmur. He managed to make even that day all about him!

Please don't nod in agreement when family and friends state how "exhausting and overwhelming" things must be for you. Don't forget you spend your days off surfing, skiing, playing golf or raquetball and visiting with friends. I spend my days off home with sick children.

Please don't ignore me for weeks and then come home with a bottle of wine expecting sex. A glass of Merlot is not considered foreplay!

Are we married to the same guy?

When I was in the pushing stages with Amanda, some of Thomas' nurses showed up with a gift for him....a tie for the new dad...ummmm...helllloooo. He actually left the L&D to go and get/open his new gift and had the nerve to come in and show it to me and talk on and on about how fabulous it was that they would think of him.

kris

[Sheherezade]

When my first was born (on my husband's OB service ) I was nervous, in pain, and completely tangled up in the paper gown I was supposed to put on behind a screen whiel my husband had a virtual cocktail party on the other side. People kept coming in and congratulating him - slapping him on the back- wishing him luck. No one bothered to ask, "So, where is your wife??" I eventually had to ask him to please help me out here. He seemed surprised that I was back there. As in "Oh yeah! You went to put on that robe thing...." Arghhh. No wonder I didn't have the hospital staff call him till I was pushing with the second. He wasn't a big help the first time.

I have no idea how I thought of these two, just random thoughts, I guess.

Be very careful about saying "Well, at least you had a better day than I." Better yet, just don't compare.

When you sign up for a credit card, please please please list your spouse as a joint account holder. That way, when the card is trying to charge you a $60 annual fee that you really don't want to pay, your spouse can cancel the card rather than nagging you incessantly for a month and then getting really bitchy because you still haven't called to do it.

When you sign up for a credit card, please please please list your spouse as a joint account holder. That way, when the card is trying to charge you a $60 annual fee that you really don't want to pay, your spouse can cancel the card rather than nagging you incessantly for a month and then getting really bitchy because you still haven't called to do it.

PLUS:
Put your wife's name on EVERY account, including utilities, cable, phone etc. or best yet, don't bother to put your name on any of these! Since you won't be handling any of the financial decisions, changes to account, updates etc there's no need to have your name on any account! Your wife doesn't need to memorize your SSN and pretend that she is YOU everytime she needs to make a change to the phone bill!

[Sheherezade]

Put your wife's name on EVERY account, including

....your student loan file so that when they call for the 15th time telling you you are about to DEFAULT already she can handle it. Of course, do this before you start rotations because you probably won't have time to call and approve her with Sallie Mae after you've entered residency. DH had to do this for each individual loan. Ther is nothing worse than getting harassed daily by financial officers who won't speak to you about "the problem" when you're spouse is in surgery all day. And I love when they asked "So, when's a good time to reach him?" Uhh.... 2005?

[DCJenn]

Please go ahead and buy that BMW M3 that you've been salivating over, but wait until your wife is on a business trip. Then tell her that you've 'sold' your other car, and that you've 'obtained' financing...

When she starts having a panic attack in her hotel room because really, NO ONE in training can afford a $600 car payment....please tell her that she's overreacting and doesn't understand...even though you haven't paid a bill in five years and have no idea what the monthly outlay really is....

(a hot button issue in our household...umm...perhaps)

Jenn

...and buy that BMW M3 that you've been salivating over...

I was just thinking about you guys the other day.....so, where does the car seat go? In Nigel? Or the "The Screamin' Meemee Beemer"? Maybe, as turnabout and fair play, Rick gets the ultra cool minivan or family car(think Buick) and all the duties that entails.


I realize that this is all figments of active imagination, as he is still with a demanding schedule, but you can threaten away....

[Meenah]

Matt,
You are too funny.
Luanne

[DCJenn]

Matt, Matt, Matt-

You know that Nigel gets the baby seat...

Jenn

[Vishenka69]

Put your wife's name on EVERY account, including utilities, cable, phone etc. or best yet, don't bother to put your name on any of these! Since you won't be handling any of the financial decisions, changes to account, updates etc there's no need to have your name on any account! Your wife doesn't need to memorize your SSN and pretend that she is YOU everytime she needs to make a change to the phone bill!

DH also almost defaulted on his loans until I took over Sallie Mae online account. We also almost had our cable turned off because DH insisted on opening account all by himself in his name and then kept forgetting to pay it. I even had to pretend I was him when I had to submit a change of address with his hospital.

[planet]

Love this one

This thread is so good and had me laughing the whole way through. I have to bring it back. We’ve been through so many of these situations too. Can I add

-why are you calling the nurse to check that orders were done when you signed out 4 hours ago?

-why are you answering that page and now tracking down the GI fellow when it is your day off?

-why are you paging the floor to see if mr. not-part-of-my-life was admitted yet when the senior told you he’d take care of it? Oh, so it wasn’t taken care of? Sure, use your post call day to cut off our conversations as you page and be paged repeatedly.

-Would you mind being the one to tell the kids you’re going in an hour early so that your fellow intern can go home to his family early?

-Oh, you get to sign out early? Oh, sure go ahead and catch up on your dictations.

-Um, yeah, it’s right here. You didn’t know? Right, that was the conversation we were having when you were paged. I don’t know which time. Maybe it was the one where you fell asleep while …hello…hello…want a blanket?

[DCJenn]

OK- this just cracked me up-

I was reading (re-reading actually) this post and I was laughing out loud. So... Dr. Curious starts reading over my head. I'm laughing at some of the posts so hard that I start crying. He's getting huffier and puffier by the moment. Finally he says, "so, we're all sanctimonious jackasses" which cracked me up even more...and then he says...in all seriousness, in full blown Arsehold Doctor Mode, "are you done yet, because I need to computer because I'm downloading something."

I just looked at him and cracked up that much harder and said, "well, clearly you didn't understand ONE THING that you just read."

Jenn

PS- and his response to the Medicine is inherently selfish comment? "Well, you married me knowing that I was going into medicine." Yikes! Who exactly knows what 'medicine' is all about? Only those people smart enough to find this site BEFORE they get married....

[planet]

Is this thread out there too?

we need to write a coping book on dealing w/physicians AND their mothers!

So I take it dealing with the mil to the perfect 'my son the doctor' isn't all that unique either?

I just looked at him and cracked up that much harder and said, "well, clearly you didn't understand ONE THING that you just read."

Oh...that is SO stinking funny!

Hook, line, and sinker.